In early days, recreation with a gun usually means being on horseback, bringing along your rifle and having a pack of foxhounds. Nothing matches the satisfaction of bringing out the hunter in all of us. Today, the sport of hunting for game is reserved for the elite. Sometimes, it is banned because of the threat to endangered species. A good alternative to this is airsofting.
Airsofting is a relatively new sport in which you use replicas of actual firearms that shoot plastic pellets using pressurized air. Though not quite useful for hunting game, it lets you shoot the heck out of your friends in urban setting war game or skirmish. There are many ways to enjoy this new form of recreation. Aside from skirmishing, you can also play capture the flag where you try to, you guessed it, capture the opposing team's flag by either taking it back to your base or hoisting your own team's flag on a flagpole on their base.
Though shooting your friends with guns seems like a novel idea, it can't be avoided that there would be accidents in the sport. It happens quite rarely and is often caused by improper usage of the airsoft gun, poor padding and protection or simply overdoing the whole "shoot your friends" thing.
So for those who want to unleash the hunter in all of us, of for those who want to express domination by capturing miniature flags, airsofting is for you!
